Gemini 2.5 Flash

Output: text only. Audio input priced higher: input $0.30 (text/image/video) / $1.00 (audio); cached input $0.03 (text/image/video) / $0.10 (audio) per 1M tokens (values shown are text/image/video tier). NOT DEPRECATED, per Google, as of the 2026-10-20 read: the model page now opens with the note "To ensure reliable performance for everyone, we are limiting access to the 2.5 models to users who have actively used them in the past. These models are not deprecated and will continue to be served until further notice through the API. For any new projects, use our latest models: 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash. This helps us maintain sufficient capacity for both ongoing legacy workflows and new applications.", and the deprecations table row for gemini-2.5-flash reads "No shutdown date announced" with an empty Recommended replacement cell (the row is not gray). Status is therefore ga, retires_on and replacement are null, and the access restriction is recorded here because the schema has no field for it: a project that has not used the 2.5 models before may be unable to call this endpoint. Until 2026-10-19 the same table gave shutdown October 16, 2026 and gemini-3.6-flash as the recommended replacement (gemini-3.5-flash until Google re-pointed it on 2026-07-31), and this row carried both with status deprecated; that date passed on 2026-10-16 without a gray marker, and Google has now withdrawn it rather than acted on it (Google publishes shutdown dates as "the earliest possible dates on which a model might be retired"). Google does not date the edit; the deprecations page says Last updated 2026-10-20 UTC, and the API changelog has no entry for it. The pricing page still carries the section with the rates above. Deprecations page release date: 2025-06-17. Latest update June 2025.

Source: Google official documentation ↗

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